no, it is a physical property.
It's a chemical property!!!
it's a chemical property ..........
Factors Affecting Electronegativity. Introduction. Is a chemical property that describes the ability of an atom (or, more rarely, a functional group) to attract electrons.
Examples: flammability, Pauling electronegativity, corrosivity etc.
Electronegativity is a chemical property that describes the ability of an atom to attract electrons towards itself in a covalent bond.
Chemical properties are: electronegativity, chemical affinity, activation energy, flammability, oxidation number, solubility, heat of reaction, heat of combustion, etc.
The one word answer is "electronegativity", which in turn is dependent on many other characteristics of the electron configuration.
Electronegativity
· General chemical properties: - Pauling electronegativity - Period - Group - Flammability - Corrosivity - Heat of combustion - Enthalpy of formation Valence (oxidation states)
· General chemical properties: - Pauling electronegativity - Period - Group - Flammability - Corrosivity - Heat of combustion - Enthalpy of formation - Valence (oxidation states) - Toxicity - Chemical stability in a given environment - Coordination number
Examples: chemical reactivity, flammability, electronegativity, polarization of a molecule, resistance to corrosion, solubility, iodine index, pH, etc.
Chemical properties of plutonium: - Pauling electronegativity: 1,28 - Valences: all between 2 and 7 - Reactivity: can be combined withe majority of non-metals - Pu is toxic - Pu is flammable
Electronegativity, symbol χ (the Greek letter chi), is a chemical property that describes the tendency of an atom or a functional group to attract electrons (or electron density) towards itself and thus the tendency to form negative ions.[1] An atom's electronegativity is affected by both its atomic number and the distance that its valence electrons reside from the charged nucleus. The higher the associated electronegativity number, the more an element or compound attracts electrons towards it.Taken from Wikipedia entry titled Electronegativity.